Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Guernsey

Articles 14, 20 and 21 of the Convention. Annual labour inspection report and notification of industrial accidents and cases of occupational diseases. The Committee notes that the annual report on the work of the labour inspection services for 2011 and 2012 contains the requested information on the number and different types of inspection visits by sector of economic activity, as well as information on the number of prohibition notices with immediate executory force issued by health and safety inspectors (Articles 3(1)(b) and 13) and of the number of cases dealt with by the courts (Article 17). It notes, however, that the annual report still does not contain information on all of the subjects listed in Article 21, and that, for example, no statistics have been provided on the workplaces liable to inspection and the number of workers employed therein (Article 21(c)), on the violations and penalties imposed (Article 21(e)) and on the cases of occupational diseases reported (Article 21(g)). Referring to its 2010 general observation, the Committee recalls that the annual labour inspection report offers an indispensable basis for the national authorities, the social partners and the ILO supervisory bodies to evaluate the results in practice of the activities of the labour inspection services and contribute to its improvement, particularly for the determination of the means necessary to improve their effectiveness. The Committee once again requests the Government to indicate the measures taken or envisaged to ensure that annual reports contain information that is as detailed as possible on all the items listed in Article 21(a)–(g) of the Convention, including statistics of violations and penalties imposed and of occupational diseases, etc. Alternatively, the Committee requests the Government to indicate the difficulties encountered in this regard and the measures taken to overcome them. In this regard, the Committee draws the Government’s attention to the guidance provided in Part IV of the Labour Inspection Recommendation, 1947 (No. 81), as to the type of information that should be reflected in the annual inspection report.

Noting that the Government has not provided any reply on the Committee’s previous request in this regard, and considering that the annual reports on the work of the labour inspection services still do not contain any statistical information on cases of occupational disease, the Committee once again asks the Government to specify the formal mechanisms put in place to notify the labour inspectorate of industrial accidents and cases of occupational disease in conformity with Article 14.